Took me a few years of trying things still I stopped denying I was actually a geek. From Storeman to Logistics manager, Bar Tender to Bar Manager, Trainee Chef and Production Manager, I always seems to end up programming something or being the technical 'goto' guy so I guess there was innate ability was always there.Went to tech to get some training to get into the industry, did two Diplomas (Systems Administration and Applied Software Development), mainly in Microsoft Technologies. Additional earned my CCNA (Cisco), MCSA 2003, CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA A+ as well as the two Diplomas.I have always been cognizant of the fact that I don't have a degree. I consider it motivation to work as hard and smart as I can. I continually try to improve my abilities. I treat the GOF book 'Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software' as a bible, as well as try my best to adhere to principles of SOLID and DRY. I try through Khan Academy to keep my math in as well as Algorithms and Data Structures. I do my best to contribute to stack overflow and do programming games on CodinGame (although not as much as I would like)In my down time I spend time with my two boys Xavier (6) and Haedrian (4), I love to cook and try on occasion to catch fish (emphasis on 'try')Technical Skills in a nutshell:Data: Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) (2005 onwards), T-SQL, SQL, XML, XSLT JSON, Firebird DB, MySQLBackend: VB.NET, C#.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Services, PowerShell, ADO.NET, Linq to SQL, EntityFramework, .NET CoreFrontend: ASP Classic, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET Web Services (SOAP, .asmx) ASP.NET MVC (1-5), ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Core, HTML(5), CSS(3), JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Angular.js, Bootstrap